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Good Morning everyone. I am one of the 'Newbies" who started posting after the fire. I would like to stay in touch, so is there an ongoing chat not so much related to the fire where people keep in touch?
By the way, thanks for popping Bill Wausson's suspenders!!

As far as I'm concerned, Timberon is the best little town in the world. Kudos to the brave firefighters who worked the front lines, and to the locals on the forums who eased the minds of everyone that can't make Timberon their year round home. We will be in Timberon for Memorial Day, and the first order of business is to get those lots marked for clearing! Thanks again to everyone!

Glad to see that doing some clearing is at the top of your list.
I am trying to see if I can squeeze in a day or two in the near future and volunteer to run up and offer suggestions to anyone here on the board that is looking at making their homes a little more fire safe.

Glad to see that doing some clearing is at the top of your list.
I am trying to see if I can squeeze in a day or two in the near future and volunteer to run up and offer suggestions to anyone here on the board that is looking at making their homes a little more fire safe.

If you do check out our place.. you will be happy with what you see. I hope..
No trees by the house, per your suggestion. There will be many of us there around July 4th time frame.
Jane

If any of you all living in Timberon now want to be on a committee to have a potluck for the firefighters on May 22, send me a message.
We're having a meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4 and I can give you more info.
Right now it's in the planning but I'll post more about it tomorrow evening but send me a message if you want to come to the meeting tomorrow.

Okay I need to get this off my chest.
Sometimes I feel emotionally strong and sometimes I don't.
The other day I felt like breaking down and crying but the people I was around were so calm.
I wasn't freaking out and did what I had to do at home while Charlie was helping fight the fire but at the same time, I felt like crying. This is my first time I've dealt with disaster and a fire.
Did anyone else feel this way or is it just something you get so used to after awhile, you stay calm? Maybe the people I saw felt the way I did but had a different way of handling it.
I've thought about this today and was wondering if I was too emotional which I tend to get over emotional at times.
Sounds like a silly question but I was just wondering if anyone else feels the way I do.

Cheryl, the way you were feeling is normal, girl! Been through it twice - once, from a cigarette thrown from a car that started a fire, and it came to about a quarter mile of our house... we wouldn't have had time to get anything out (including us - it almost cut off our exit route). The second time was when I was visiting a friend and a train sparked a grass fire, and it was very dry! Luckily, they had a tractor and were able to hook up a disc plow to it fast enough to make a fire brake around the house... I was shaking, and trying not to cry, and holding myself together at the same time I was calm - yeah, I know how you feel! LOL!!

On Sunday, May 17th at 1pm, there will be a presentation at the Timberon Fire Station by Susan Jenkins of the US Forest Service. She will discuss fire safety measures we can all take to protect our homes. She will go to a residence and critique, telling what is good, what is not good.

The Timberon Fire Sculpture Benefit auctions are running now at eBay. DM me if you would like the links, or you can just do a search for the bolded title.

They are worth checking out. Lets just hope they make lots of money for Butch and Donna.

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